GitOps provides a pathway to stable, dependable, and predictable cloud native infrastructure and workflows. Over the past few years GitOps and Argo have grown hand in hand as ArgoCD has become a reliable solution for consolidating and extending GitOps inside Kubernetes environments.
However, Argo is much more than just a GitOps project – so we are excited to share the new documentary, “Inside Argo: Automating the Future.”
The film, produced by CNCF and Speakeasy Productions, gives viewers an inside look at the journey of a groundbreaking open source project that revolutionized Kubernetes workflows and unveils how Argo grew from a single workflow engine to a powerful collection of tools to simplify and automate Kubernetes deployments – Argo Workflows, CD, Rollouts, and Events.
“Creating Argo was a journey that paralleled the grit and inspiration of the cloud native community,” said Pratik Wadher, senior vice president of product development at Intuit and Argo Project creator. “This premiere is a celebration of the people and stories that created the vibrant, diverse Argo community that we have today.”
“After 8 years of intensive product development, we’re excited to share the full story of the Argo Project – a documentary celebrating the innovation, collaboration, and impact of open-source in transforming Kubernetes application deployment,” said Hong Wang, Argo project creator, CEO at Akuity
Argo’s suite of tools can each be used independently, but there is great benefit in using them together to create and operate complex applications at scale. Argo Workflows enables the creation of complex parallel workflows as Kubernetes resources for use cases like CI/CD pipelines and machine learning workflows. Argo Events provides declarative management of event-based dependencies for Kubernetes resources. Argo CD and Argo Rollouts help engineers adopt and use Kubernetes and make GitOps best practices more approachable.
“The amazing thing about open source is you can be part of something so impactful and so important,” said Dan Garfield, Argo project maintainer, co-founder & chief open source officer at Codefresh. “Argo has exceeded all my wildest expectations to power the world, and it’s only accelerating. There’s still time to be part of this story, come contribute, share your successes, ask questions, point out bugs, and help us build the future.”
“We have seen first-hand the momentum of the Argo project over the years and its growth to become the forefront of GitOps and empowering teams to manage infrastructure and application deployment with agility and confidence,“ said Siamak Sadeghianfar, senior manager, product management at Red Hat. “We’re excited to share the project’s story, and we look forward to continuing to support and contribute to the project as a critical component of Red Hat OpenShift.”
Since joining the CNCF Incubator in 2020, Argo has become one of CNCF’s most active projects. As of its graduation in 2022, Argo had seen a 250 percent jump in its use in production workloads, counting more than 350 end user organizations such as Adobe, Capital One, CERN, Intuit, and Ticketmaster. In our most recent look at project velocity this summer, Argo ranked in the top 3 CNCF projects and top 5 Linux Foundation projects.
“Argo’s graduation from the CNCF marked a major milestone in cloud native technology and solidified the project as a critical tool in driving the GitOps movement forward,” said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of CNCF. “Argo has proven itself to be a powerful tool for managing complex Kubernetes workflows and we are proud to share their success story with the cloud native community in this compelling documentary. Its robust community, high standards for security, and extensive industry adoption reflect its maturity and value to organizations worldwide.”
The film features contributors, maintainers, and community members from Akuity, CNCF, CodeFresh by Octopus Deploy, Intuit, and Red Hat to share the story behind Argo’s origins and its rise to one of the most transformative projects in modern cloud native development.
The film will debut on Thursday, November 14, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Salt Lake City.
